 | Money - 1799 - 208 pagina’s
...Pesh they are taken to Vienna, whence they are distributed through the markets of Germany. If a person who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, adds to the riches of mankind, how large an accession of wealth is due to an arrangement which makes... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1807 - 844 pagina’s
...Cultivation of the C'rambe Ultirilima of Lintieus, or Sea Kale. By Mr. JOHN MAKER, FHS* -1L F the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
 | Repertory of arts, manufactures and agriculture - 1807 - 528 pagina’s
...Kale. By Mr. JOHN MAKER, FHS From the TRANSACTIONS of the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON. JL F the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
 | 1807 - 534 pagina’s
...Kale. By Mr, JOHN MAHER, FHS From the TRANSACTIONS of the HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON. AF the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1808 - 404 pagina’s
...assume, as the creed of their philosophical belief, a foolish saying of some not very wise author, " That he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is the greatest benefactor to his species." With thesepersons, • the noblest employment of human intellect... | |
 | 1820 - 482 pagina’s
...Crambe Maritima of LINNEUS, or Sea Kale. By Mr. JOHN MA HER, FHS Read November 2, 1805. IF the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is to be esteemed an important benefactor to his country ; he who teaches us how to improve a palatable... | |
 | Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard - 1824 - 224 pagina’s
...a benefactor to the country in the largest sense of the word. A Philosopher has said, that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, is greater than the greatest hero : if this be true, Mr. Johnes must rank before all the conquerors of... | |
 | Andreas Andersen Feldborg - 1824 - 474 pagina’s
...uielts the sword of war, yet keeps it in the sheath." Being, moreover, of Swift's opinion, that the man who " makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is so far a creator," I gladly accepted Colonel Tscherning's offer, to show me those parts of the works... | |
 | 1858 - 648 pagina’s
...we to appreciate the labours of its great cultivators! If we extol the genius of the agriculturist who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, shall we not exalt still higher the men who, in the already fertile branch, can increase the vital... | |
 | 1828 - 348 pagina’s
...lost in expressions of admiration. " A Philosopher has said," says a modern Tourist, " that the man, who makes two blades of grass grow, where only one grew before, is greater than the greatest hero. If this be true, Mr. Johnes must rank before all the conquerors of... | |
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It has been said that he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a benefactor to his species. 
